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Efficient, environmentally-friendly and specific valorization of lignin: promising role of non-radical lignolytic enzymes

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-017-2286-6

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Non-radical lignolytic enzymes; Lignin; Valorization; Metabolic engineering; High value added chemicals

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  1. National Key Research Programme [2016YFD0400601]
  2. State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering [201760]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 21576153]
  4. Beijing Natural Science Foundation [5162019]
  5. National High-tech Research and Development Program [2015AA021001]
  6. Chinese 111 Project [B13005]

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Lignin is the second most abundant bioresource in nature. It is increasingly important to convert lignin into high value-added chemicals to accelerate the development of the lignocellulose biorefinery. Over the past several decades, physical and chemical methods have been widely explored to degrade lignin and convert it into valuable chemicals. Unfortunately, these developments have lagged because of several difficulties, of which high energy consumption and non-specific cleavage of chemical bonds in lignin remain the greatest challenges. A large number of enzymes have been discovered for lignin degradation and these are classified as radical lignolytic enzymes and nonradical lignolytic enzymes. Radical lignolytic enzymes, including laccases, lignin peroxidases, manganese peroxidases and versatile peroxidases, are radical-based bio-catalysts, which degrade lignins through non-specific cleavage of chemical bonds but can also catalyze the radical-based re-polymerization of lignin fragments. In contrast, nonradical lignolytic enzymes selectively cleave chemical bonds in lignin and lignin model compounds and, thus, show promise for use in the preparation of high valueadded chemicals. In this mini-review, recent developments on non-radical lignolytic enzymes are discussed. These include recently discovered non-radical lignolytic enzymes, their metabolic pathways for lignin conversion, their recent application in the lignin biorefinery, and the combination of bio-catalysts with physical/chemical methods for industrial development of the lignin refinery.

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